Despite regular incidents of anti-migrant violence, peaceful and mutually beneficial relationships between South Africans and migrants can and do exist.
Hleketani farmers attend a meeting of their grocery savings club.
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Crisis is a given for resource-poor households globally, but — in the absence of supportive policies — so are these careful strategies of self-provisioning and mutual aid.
Stokvel members prefer to manage their affairs through non-state means.
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Millions of South Africans exchange billions of rands annually but disputes involving these transactions hardly ever appear before the country’s courts.
South Africans celebrate the Springboks winning the 2019 Rugby Woirld Cup.
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South African commercial law courses do not address the question of what norms and procedures govern business relations in indigenous African communities.
A hairdresser at work in Johannesburg while other vendors sell fruit and footwear. Finding ways to support micro enterprises such as these is the challenge .
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Governments in sub-Saharan Africa should encourage the formation of cooperative thrift and credit societies to boost the development of micro enterprises.
Small business owners, such as this vendor in Cape Town, need access to affordable micro loans.
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Vasti Roodt is Associate Professor and Head of PROSPER (Promoting Social and Political Ethics Research) in the Department of Philosophy, Stellenbosch University